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Technologies of Mobility in the Americas: Intersections in Communications & Culture

Autor Phillip Vannini Editat de Lucy Budd
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2012
What do road infrastructures, media networks, ferry boats, cell phones, automobiles, and airplanes have in common? As attempts to come to terms with the virtual and material distance separating people, objects, and information they are all technologies of mobility which deeply shape our ways of life, informing ideas, demanding new skills and practices, facilitating or impeding relationships, and restricting or enabling access to crucial resources.Mobility studies concentrate on the intersecting movements of bodies, objects, capital, and signs across time-space, dissecting how practices, experiences, representations, and political dynamics shape new networks and lifeworlds. This book aims to reflect on the simultaneously technological and cultural (hence, technocultural) processes underpinning many of these forms of mobility, concentrating in particular in the North, Central, and South American social context.Whereas in Europe the study of mobilities has begun to take a strong hold in academic units, professional research networks, and recognized publication outlets, the study of mobilities is still in its adolescence in the Americas. Yet, in contrast, mobility is very much part of the core of the social imaginary, geo-politics, and cultural life of the Americas. Indeed, to be 'on the move' is among the most quintessential characteristics of what it means to be a citizen of the Americas. This book is the first to reflect on these dynamics within this large geo-cultural context.
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ISBN-13: 9781433114052
ISBN-10: 1433114054
Pagini: 286
Dimensiuni: 225 x 152 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Seriile Intersections in Communications & Culture, Intersections in Communications and Culture: Global Approach


Notă biografică

Phillip Vannini is Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Public Ethnography and Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.Lucy Budd is Lecturer in Transport Studies in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. Christian Fisker is a doctoral student in the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology at Aalborg University. Paola Jirón is a Chilean academic from the Institute of Housing, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, the University of Chile, where she coordinates the Masters Programme on Residential Habitat.Ole B. Jensen is Professor of Urban Theory in the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark.

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